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Rationalising Academic Research in the Country In a recent development, MHRD has decided to constitute a committee to drive up the research performance of academic Institutions. This is a welcome step, because as India moves in the global knowledge economy, the country will have to improve its research capacity and performance, and this can only be done by targeted and competitive research. This initiative of the MHRD will bring an end to the random disbursement and we can expect a rather selective and efficient approach in allocation of research support for academic institutions.

Chairman of the Centre’s Department of Biotechnology will head the 18-member committee that has been proposed by MHRD for this purpose.

The committee will also have former heads of UGC, AICTE, and NCL. The heads of NAAC, NBA, IISc Bangalore and JNU are among other educational establishments that will be part of the committee. Some of the key objectives before the committee will be to review existing arrangement for funding of research, both core funding of research–facilities, infrastructure and project funding in academic institutions–to identify gaps and create a framework to evaluate research and rankings.

This issue of digitalLEARNING being our annual directory edition has a holistic coverage of the education space in the country. We have endeavoured to cover the views of the key academics who are engaged in providing education to our boys and girls in schools and colleges, and also the private sector companies that are revolutionising the education solutions through their new technologies and systems. Our interaction with the academia and the industry throws light on the ways by which the teaching systems are getting transformed. One key issue that emerges is the need to bridge the academiaindustry gap. Lot of efforts are being made for achieving this objective, but we need to work further on this aspect.

You will agree that in an increasingly competitive era, skills have become an important determinant. We have an interesting article on this subject, which throws light on the strategies that the industry and the institutions are adopting to provide latest skills related learning to the students. This issue of digitalLEARNING also has an insight of the higher education space. It is of interest to note that there has been a steady growth of universities in India from 343 in 2004-05 to 610 in 2012-13. And it now seems that India could soon emerge as the university capital of the world. Our large youth population is sure to benefit from the rise of so many universities.

In November we are having a Vice Chancellor’s conclave in scenic locale of Goa. Vice Chancellors from eminent institutions across the country will gather in Goa for a two-day conclave where views will be exchanged on ways by which we can have better educational outcomes in our universities. The leaders of the private sector companies that are engaged in developing solutions for education will also be there to contribute to the discussion. As education is a universal subject, the outcomes of the conclave will be applicable to all parts of the country.

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Open e-school soon to be launched in Kerala A web-based, digital open school called ‘Ischooledx.com’ has been set up at Infopark in Thrissur district of Kerala. Students from any part of the world can get admission to this school and can follow the classes, right from their home or school with the help of an internet connection.

The admission to the web-based school, which is free for all students, officially began on September 16.

It claims to be the “biggest school in the world” and has been established on the lines of the National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER) launched by the Union government, first time in Kerala. It aims to promote the standard of learning process in schools at an international level across the country.

Special training on safety, hygiene for mid-day meal staff, teachers

CBSE invites art works from school students In an attempt to hone the creative side of students studying in CBSE-affiliated schools, the Board has started inviting art works from school students across the world.

October 20 is the deadline and each school can send three best art works.

There is also an option to send online entries in JPEG format to rs.procbse@gmail. com. The art works must be related to themes on education and should not be anti-national or communal.

A three-member screening committee will select the best entries and the selected entries will be acknowledged by the board, giving the artist the credit line besides their brief profile.

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The Dakshina Kannada education department will organise special training programmes for teachers and midday meal workers serving in government and aided schools with an aim to ensure safety and hygiene in midday meal kitchens. The training will commence from October first week during the Dasara holidays in schools and will be held at hobli and cluster levels for four to five days. The department of health and family welfare will also be a part of the training programmes to create awareness on various health issues and hygienic food.

Uttar Pradesh to hire 10,000 teachers for basic education schools As per the Basic Education secretary Niteshwar Kumar’s fresh orders, the Uttar Pradesh government will recruit 10,000 teachers for its basic education schools.

The hiring process will begin from October 15 and will be completed by December 15. Out of the 10,000 posts which would be filled, the maximum posts are from districts like Siddharthanagar, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Balrampur, Maharajganj, Chandauli and Kushinagar.

The recruitment will be done online and the eligible applicants will be selected from special BTC (basic training certificate), the Urdu equivalent of BTC and those who have passed the teachers eligibility test (TET).

RTO teams to monitor errant school buses in Mumbai The Regional Transport Office (RTO) has formed more than 50 teams to keep tabs on every school bus that operates in Mumbai to ensure safety of school students. The teams will operate across city, and the eastern and western suburbs to ensure the new school bus safety policy is not flouted. The RTO officials said they will keep an eye on all its aspects, including ensuring a woman attendant on buses ferrying girls. They have demanded an increase in fines too.

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Fusion International School shifts to new building Fusion International School, Hyderabad is planning to shift to new building by December 2013. The Management of Fusion International School is constructing new Campus at Survey No. 383, Ameenpur, Chanda Nagar, after Bandam Kommu kaman and Hanuman Temple in Two Acres Land.

The new school building is two killometres away from Sri Devi Theatre. The facilities in campus include spacious classrooms, excellent ventilation, beautiful lawns, sandpit, children play area, badminton courts, basket ball court, tennis court, mini cricket ground, computer labs, library, science lab, language lab and geography room.

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Prize distribution day at Amity School Amity International School, Sector-43, Gurgaon, celebrated its Senior Prize Distribution Day in which meritorious students of classes V to XI were awarded prizes in academics, co-curricular activities and sports.

Chairperson Dr Amita Chauhan graced the event.

Scholarships were given to outstanding students who have scored above 90 per cent in their classes. In addition to this, students of Class X who scored a perfect 10 CGPA were rewarded with individual shields at the function.

Shivalik Public School celebrates musical heritage The Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) organised a heritage function at Shivalik Public School, Phase-VI, Mohali.

Distinguished musicians of the country, Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Pt Ram Kumar Mishra delivered a soul soothing performance, a musical jugalbandi.

DPS Raipur students to visit Britain A team of 10 students led by Principal Raghunath Mukherjee of Delhi Public School (DPS), Raipur, will visit Britain in October under the educational exchange programme with Hans Down School of Britain. The team will act as cultural ambassador of Chhattisgarh and India. The team, consisting of three boys and three girls of Classes VII and IX, will leave for Britain on October 9 and return on October 22. During the visit, these students will attend classes on arts and science and learn about their culture. They will also showcase Indian classical music and dance performances along with Karma folk dance of Chhattisgarh in Britain. Under this exchange programme, a team from Hans Down School will pay a visit to Raipur in February, 2014.

MINDS a Multinational Education Group in association with TOCICO – USA has unleashed a new era in education, by opening the chain of preschools, primary, secondary and senior secondary schools in Asia, Canada, Mexico, Middle East & North African Countries.

The Minds group has chain of preschools under the brand Junior Minds. Minds group is poised and dedicated to bring the revolution in education by opening K-12 schools under the brand name of Minds Global School. MINDS is also going to start a MBA in TOC, very soon from the next academic session.

The Group is planning to open a residential Minds Vedic Global School to create a bridge between Vedic Shiksha and modern education. Under these schools the Vedic Shikha would be covered in the morning hours and thereafter modern education would be given.

MINDS has also created an Islamic concept called Minds IQRA School. IQRA is an educational NGO working in Islamic region, which has created curriculum based on Muslim beliefs for the Muslim students. The acceptability of this concept has grown manifolds in Muslim countries.

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New UGC rules for foreign collaboration The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified a fresh set of regulations for collaboration between Indian institutes with grade-B accreditation to enter into collaboration with foreign educational institutions. The regulations are called the UGC (Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaborations between Indian and Foreign Educational Institutes) Regulations, 2012.

Foreign institutions, which enter into partnerships, should be accredited with the highest grade in their homeland, the UGC notification said. As per the notification, “at the time of agreement for collaboration, Indian educational institution shall have accreditation by National Assessment and Accreditation Council with a grade not less than B or its equivalent grade.”

India to welcome foreign varsities Foreign universities can soon set up independent campuses in India and offer degrees without the need to collaborate with Indian institutes. Under the proposed rules, Foreign Educational Institutions (FEI) that want to set up a campus in India, can do so through an association to be registered as a company under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956.

As per the powers vested with the Central government to make rules under the UGC Act, the MHRD is finalising the UGC (Established and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Educational Institutions) rules by which foreign varsities can set up campus in India and issue foreign degrees.

MHRD is working on the details and an official notification is expected to be published soon. Once it is notified, it will render irrelevant the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill 2010, which the government was unable to get passed in the parliament.

MHRD initiates third all-India survey on higher education The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) launched the third edition of an all-India survey on higher education for 2012-13. Through the survey MHRD aims to have a better perspective of the state of affairs of higher education in the country. The survey covers all higher education institutions across the country including universities, colleges, and stand-alone institutions.

The survey compiles and manages statistics directly online from respondent institutions and includes basic details, programme details, teaching and non-teaching staff, student enrolment, examination results and scholarships.

Mahindra Group enters into engineering education The Mahindra Group has marked its entry into the Higher Education sector with the inauguration of an engineering institution – ‘Mahindra École Centrale’ (MEC). This is in collaboration with École Centrale Paris, one of the oldest engineering institutions in France, and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad. The Governor Andhra Pradesh, ESL Narasimhan unveiled the ceremonial plaque along with Vineet Nayyar, Chairman – Board, Mahindra École Centrale, C P Gurnani, Board Member, Mahindra École Centrale at the newly built campus at Hyderabad, in presence of École Centrale’s representatives and the Consul General of France in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and Dr Rameshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor, JNTU(H).

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eBay to recruit 700 engineers by 2016 eBay is planning to recruit around 700 engineers in India by 2016. Recently, eBay has established a new global development centre (GDC) in Bangalore, which contains centre of excellence for both eBay and PayPal – the secure online payment company owned by the same firm.

At this 1.5 lakh square feet centre in Bangalore, the company plans to raise the number of people working to a total of 1000 from the current number of 300. It is looking to hire technologists with product development experience across functions like platform and application development, architecture, quality engineering, product management, marketing and product analytics, user experience and design and information security, over the next few years.

India and Japan sign MoU to launch joint research initiatives

The Ministry of Science & Technology (DBT & DST), Government of India and RIKEN, Japan’s largest research organisation, have signed MoUs for launching joint research programmes in the fields of Biology, Life sciences and Material Sciences. (Genome–related research including systems Biology, Computational science including development of Bioinformatics tools, Detection tools for security and other areas of mutual interest) The Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed by Prof Noyori, President of RIKEN and Dr T Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Dr K Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Department of Bio-Technology (DBT). This will formally launch the RIKEN- DBT&DST Joint Research activities.

The cooperation will facilitate exchange and foster collaborations between Japan and India, in these fields. They extend a long history of collaboration between India and Japan, two powerhouses of Asian research and innovation.

Harvard Prof Ashish Nanda takes charge of IIM-A Harvard Law School professor Ashish Nanda, who was recently appointed as the director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), took charge of the office in September. Nanda was appointed at the top post nearly ten months after former director Samir Barua’s five-year term ended in November 2012.

Apex Court ruling renders AICTE defunct An April Supreme Court (SC) ruling has effectively rendered irrelevant the once-powerful regulatory body All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

On 25 April, the apex court ruled that the Council does not have the authority to control or regulate professional colleges that are affiliated to universities. It means that a technical college with university affiliation does not need to seek AICTE approval.

In the absence of AICTE, no new colleges will be granted recognition and a few existing ones are at a loss over accreditation, intakes, other issues, as the regulator used to control every aspect of India’s technical education schools, including engineering colleges and business schools.

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Changing the World through Digital Experiences Shantanu Narayen, President & CEO Company Name Adobe

Employees More than 11,000 worldwide

Year of Inception December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock

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Digital Media and Digital Marketing solutions offered by Adobe empower businesses to make, manage, measure, and monetize content.

Solution offerings Digital Media Adobe helps creative professionals, publishers, developers, and businesses create, publish, promote, and monetize their content anywhere. Our customers have a profound impact on our visual culture by continuing to reinvent design, art, the web, mobile apps, video, broadcast, and printed content.

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digital images, transforming them into anything imaginable and showcasing our world in extraordinary ways.

Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is filled with smart tools that enable easy, seamless communication and collaboration on documents and content inside and outside an enterprise. subscription service that lets you download every Adobe creative desktop application available and provides online services for file sharing, collaboration, and publishing.

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Adobe Digital Publishing Suite helps individual designers, traditional media publishers, ad agencies, and companies of all sizes create, distribute, monetize, and optimize engaging content and publications for tablet devices, including iPad. Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is the ultimate playground for bringing out the best in

Digital Marketing Solutions Adobe’s Digital Marketing solutions combine content and data, personalisation, experience management, and social capabilities so businesses can move faster from data to insights to action. Marketers, advertisers, and publishers use our solutions to optimize customer experiences and campaign returns across channels and screens. With real-time data and solid insights, companies of all sizes are providing customers with the on demand experiences.

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Innovative ICT Solutions Ravi Putta, Managing Director Company Name Agile Learning Pvt Ltd Leadership Team Ravi Putta, Managing Director (India) Chetan Babu, Head of Technology/IT Year of Inception: 2003 Website: www.agilelearning.com

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he Agile Learning is a pre–eminent provider of ICT solutions and training to the public sector. The company has been recognised by entities such as UNDP as having developed the most innovative ICT solutions for the public sector. Agile Learning has been selected by various ministries and partners to provide training in the usage of ICT in an educational context in over a dozen countries.

Agile has been recognised by entities such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for having developed “the most innovative and comprehensive technology applications” for their projects. Microsoft selected Agile’s educational administration and management solution as a “Best Practice ICT Solution for Governments” in 2008. In its most recent business opportunity, Agile has just been selected to replace the UNESCO Education Management Information System that is currently being used in Uganda. The UNESCO EMIS has historically been a solution that is used in many ‘developing world’ countries.

Business Collaborations With USAID, World Bank, UNDP, DFID, SIDA, Microsoft, Cisco, AED/FHI, and Creative Associates.

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Business Highlights and Achievements The Agile EMIS is used on a national basis in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa • The Agile EMIS Provides Mission-Critical information related to education programs for over 55,000 schools • Developed and implemented Management Information Systems for National Examinations Councils • Developed and implemented SMS/Online Examinations Results Publications System for National Examinations Councils

Education Management Information System (EMIS), SMS EXAM Results Publication, School Administrationand Management System (SAMS),Agile EMIS-Lite and M&E Solutions, Training and Capacity Building Consultancy in the following areas : • Basic ICT Training • Teacher training - Integrating ICT in the Classroom for Teaching and Learning (Administration, Management and Content) • Teacher training - Monitoring Learning Achievement • School Managers - Using ICT for School Management • Education Management Information Systems - Training National and Decentralized Public Sector Managers • GIS Systems • Change Management • Database Development • Using ICT to Improve Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Sector • Harmonization of M&E Programs

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Result-oriented Programmes Viral Parekh, Managing Director Company Name American Institute of Enrichment

Website: www.theaie.org

CEO Jay Parekh

Head Office Level 4 Dynasty, A-Wing, Andheri-Kurla Road, Mumbai - 400069 E-mail: info@theaie.org

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merican Institute of Enrichment, originated in the USA, established a business office in India (Mumbai) in 2009. The AIE provides innovative, research based, and effective programmes to help schools enrich student learning with concept based education. In India, in collaboration with our exclusive Product Partners, the organisation strive to enhance how schools teach and how students learn. Regardless of what board your school follows, (IB, IGCSE, CBSE, ICSE, or any other) the AIE flexible programmes with board aligned modules empower schools, parents, and students with a complete understanding of concepts giving them the advantage of a solid foundation. Th AIE has programmes for Math, Early Reading, Reading Comprehension, Arts, Vocabulary, and Writing.

The programmes range from grades 1 through 8 and are customised with modules that align to Indian and International Boards including IB, IGCSE, CBSE, and ICSE. AIE also offers a complete range of educational services including consul-

tancy, teacher training workshops and parent seminars. Products offered by the AIE are research based and have years of proven results. The AIE products are used by hundreds of schools in North America and millions of students over the years.

Products and Solutions The company has comprehensive and effective programmes in Math, English, and Arts for Grades K to VIII. All programmes offered by the AIE are easy to implement, result oriented, and practically priced for easy adoption.

Mathscore (MATH): Online Math Programme for Schools, Teachers, Students and even Parents. Board aligned modules are available.

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Business Highlights • In 2012 the AIE began to service schools of all boards across India.

• In 2013 the AIE launched six new programmes for the Indian Market • In 2013 the company started Study-Abroad programmes

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Words and their Stories (VOCABULARY): Students get the context story behind the meaning of over 1000 words with a game like experience.

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MimioSprout (READING): Teaches phonemics by breaking down words into 110 most commonly seen sound strands for very effective results. This is the most effective programme to take non-reading children into reading.

MimioReading (READING): A complete comprehension building programme covers six distinct types of comprehension strategies to develop a deeper understanding.

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rmstrong World Industries Inc, a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings with a focus on innovation, design and environmental sustainability. The 150 years old NYSE listed is headquartered in US; Armstrong operates 35 plants in 8 countries and has approximately 10,000 employees worldwide. In 2010, Armstrong’s consolidated net sales totaled approximately $2.8 billion.

Armstrong World Industries (India) Pvt Ltd is a market leader in ceilings and floorings. The company has commenced its operations in 1999. Headquartered in Mumbai, Armstrong India has a pan India presence with 11 sales offices and 9 warehouses located across the country to ensure timely delivery.

Armstrong pioneered the use of acoustical modular ceiling to become the market leader in the segment. Armstrong is committed to provide world-class, high quality products to the Indian Market and provides complete factory-finished systems to customers. With the launch of Architectural Specialties Armstrong India has raised the style quotient in Interior design Industry.

Environment Armstrong India is committed to responsible manufacturing and the products are designed to be environmentally sensitive, all products have a high percentage of recycled and renewable raw materials. Armstrong participates in the Green Building Movement across the world. Armstrong India is a founder member of US Green Building Council (USGBC) and Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).

Armstrong India is the first and so far the only company, which has its mineral fibre modular ceiling tiles listed in the GRIHA product catalogue as well.

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Technology to Improve Student Achievement Avneet Makkar, CEO Head Office CarveNiche Technologies Private Limited, 740, 7th Cross, BTM Second Stage, Bangalore, Karnataka – 560 076

Company Name CarveNiche Technologies Website www.carveniche.com

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• beGalileo – Personalised Adaptive Learning Platform • WybeeTab – Educational tablets with academic curriculum • WisdomLeap – Learning management system with automated CCE • Digital Content for Classrooms

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Target Vertical K-10

Achievements Our products are being used by 250+ schools and over 2.1 lakh students across the country.

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Presidency group of institutions TVS Academy Mount Litera Zee school Badwin Boys High School Young Scholars

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Enhancing Employability Dr Amit Kumar, Managing Director Company Name Cyberfort Technologies CEO: Rajni Priya

Year of Inception: 2013

Corporate Office Cyberfort Technologies, 8th Floor, AMR Tower II Manthan, Plot No. 9, Tech Zone, Expressway, Greater Noida, UP

Email: amit@cyberfort.org

Website: www.cyberfort.org

Leadership Team Dr Rajesh Kumar, Avishek Manav

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yberfort Technologies is a Boutique Training and Consulting Firm specializing in Information Security. Cyberfort Technologies is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 certified and is an accredited member of IADL UK. Cyberfort Technologies provides niche and hi-tech certification courseware globally via virtual and instructor led teaching modules. Cyberfort Technologies has strategic alliances with Mahatma Gandhi University, India (UGC-AICTE-DEC approved) and EC-Council (world’s largest certification body for Cyber security professionals) for imparting high quality postgraduate and professional certifications in Information Security.

Cyberfort TechnoLab’s programme textbooks and workbooks have been developed by experienced industry professionals to provide insight into the real-life ICT industry. Textbooks have been designed to provide theoretical and practical learning to the learner Each book starts by defining the

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Registered Office Dr A Kumar Charitable Trust, Tulsi Nagar, Near D M Kothi, Tilka Manjhi, Bhagalpur, Bihar

learning objectives and providing sufficient reading material to ensure these objectives are met. Textbooks supplement the workbooks used by learners during classroom learning sessions

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Courses at a Glance • MBA in Cyber Security • MBA in Investment Banking • BCA in Cyber Security • BBA in Investment Banking • Diploma in Cyber Security • Diploma in Algo Trading • Certificate in Cyber Security • Certificate in Professional Trading

Cyberfort Technologies is ISO 9001: 2008 and ISO 27001:2005 certified and is an accredited member of IADL UK. Cyberfort Technologies provides niche and hi-tech certification courseware globally via virtual and instructor led teaching modules. Cyberfort Technologies has strategic alliances with Mahatma Gandhi University, India (UGC-AICTE-DEC approved) and EC-Council (world’s largest certification body for Cyber security professionals) for imparting high quality postgraduate and professional certifications in Information Security.

Target Vertical Schools, Government Organisations and Corporate

Special Feature cyber security

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India Unlikely to Meet Cyber Security Workforce Target By

Amit Kumar,

President Cyberfort Technologies

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think India is late in the game by about 10 years, but at the same time the heart of the government is in the right place. What they’ve done right is the appointment of Gulshan Rai as the cyber security coordinator. At least now there is a single point that you know you can go to with all of your questions and problems. To me, it was more of a vision statement.

It’s a step in the right direction. The journey from a visionary cybersecurity policy to a tactical implementation to an actual change on ground is a long way.

India’s cybersecurity budget is about a mere seven million US dollars, but that of NSA is billions of dollars, out of which the department of Homeland Security gets 658 million dollars, and the US CERT gets 93 million dollars. Also, India needs five lakh professionals in the next two years that is unlikely to be met due to lack of infrastructure and investment. How do you produce them in the country when none of the colleges actually have cyber security specialisations? That is not going to be easily achievable. You will need a pool of 25 lakh to pick five lakh.

The country is lagging behind in its fight in cyberwarfare that has adopted innovative ways to attack governments and organisations causing huge financial losses.

India has been ‘extremely late’ on framing the cyber security policy, which was launched by the government early this month. Cybersecurity policy is a great vision statement but I don’t think India has got a tactical plan. India does not have the environment. It is yet to be created.

I would be pleasantly surprised if India meets the target (of creating workforce).

The National Cyber Security Policy aims at creating a work force of 5,00,000 professionals in the next five

India is lagging behind in the cybersecurity game by 10 years”, says Amit Kumar, President Cyberfort India years and build cybersecurity training infrastructure through public-private participation.

As compared to the US, which is putting in a lot of resources to create cyber security professionals, India needs to involve academia like universities, impart training, set up labs and foster competition to deal with cyber security issues which is entirely missing in the country.

India ranks ninth on Kaspersky’s list of countries with the highest percentage of computer attacks and many of the government websites are still exposed to threats as proper investment has not been made to find a long term solution.

According to official data, more than 1,000 government websites were

hacked in the last three years.

When a government website is got hacked they call professionals who fix the problem. But they have no budget to carry on. They have no budget to hire right people, to train them and defend their websites.

It is evident that the best way to solve the disease of cyberplague is by introducing a cybervaccine programme that is needed to start at all levels of society through combative education plans.

China is estimated to have 25 million experts in cyber security while 1.25 lakh are from the local government. The US has 91,080 experts in the government while India has just 556 experts.

While data points show that we are losing the fight, it is clear that the solution to the plague will happen when we will inject the vaccine. It is evident that the best way to solve the cyber plague is by introducing a cyber-vaccine programme that is needed to start at all levels of society through combative education plans.

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CYBERNETYX Interaktiv Company Name CEO CYBERNETYX Interaktiv Eduard Metzger CEO Eduard Metzger Leadership Team (India) Leadership Sales:

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Target Vertical Education, Government, Corporate & SME Target Vertical Education, Government, Corporate & SME

Top Clients Tata Interactive, Pearson, Mexus EducaTop Clients

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Delivering Affordable and Quality Solutions Dr Man Mohan Sharma, Managing Director Company Name Educo International India Pvt Ltd Year of Inception: 2009 Leadership Team Ashim Chaudhary Diwakar Rao Pushpish Chandra Aditya Anita Rajput

Head Office 116 Suneja Tower, District Center Janak Puri, New Delhi 110058 Regional Office Bangalore, Vadodara, Patiala Email: contact@educo-int.com Website: www.educosoft.com Customer support: 011- 45553888

Number of Employees: 55

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ducoSoft is a web platform designed, developed and managed

by Educo International Inc, a company incorporated in the state of Georgia (USA) in 1985, with its subsidiaries in India, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Jamaica. During its first 15 years (1985-2000) development of the platform was supported by the US Department of Education and IBM Corporation through funded projects. In 2001 Educo started working on delivering its content and learning management system through the web. Since then the content and the system have undergone continuous improvement driven by user feedback, technology and education industry trend.

Today it has emerged as one of the leading provider of comprehensive instructional and e-learning solutions in K-12 and post secondary education markets around the world. Educo is user driven without any marketing Infrastructure, and grows from user to user references. Its R&D, service, global web servers are in the US, with content production and system development in India. This type of management keeps the cost affordable with quality support.

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The mission of Educo is to custom design its platform for any user, country or Institutions, and makes them partners of change, with the support of large team of Educo Programmers and developers, local teachers and administrators.

Products and solutions Educo LMS is a flexible and comprehensive web based Learning Management

Top Clients • Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, Delhi • Tagore International School, East of Kailash, Delhi • Father Agnel School, Delhi • Father Agnel School, Noida • Rukmini Devi Public School, Delhi • Bhatnagar International School, Delhi • DAV Public School, Amritsar • Dawindera International School, Amritsar • DC Montessori, Chandigarh • Bright Day School, Vadodara

System. It is easy to deliver and manage courses online and provide excellent customer support. The solution is customized to user needs.

Educo Pen Drive: Considering the need to provide off-line solutions to Educo’s powerful content, it is now providing solutions to user with limited or unreliable internet access thorough handy Pen Drives, with links to online tests. Educo Pen Drive is a powerful stand-alone system that comes loaded with highly interactive and engaging course material that runs on a network environment as well as on a standalone PC or laptop and requires no internet connectivity. It is a convenient plug and play learning solution that can be used in any Windows based computers. Educo Pen Drive license is valid for one full academic year (varies from course to course). License can be renewed online or by contacting the support.

Educo LAN: It is available for Institutions without Internet in classroom and computer lab. It provides access to students and teachers in the institution only.

Target Vertical: Schools, Teachers and Students

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Doon Public School Dedicated for the Cause of the Nation for 35 years “Harmonious development of intellectual and manual skills is essential for pursuit of excellence, and Doon Public School with its education system furnishes the minds and fashions the personalities for producing the progressive minds which can take society a step forward,” says MG Vasan, Chairman, Doon Public School

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The vision and mission of Doon Public School is in tandem with the paradigm of excellence in teaching, variety of enriched experiences for the students and sublime moral education with innovative opportunities coupled with hi-tech digital learning” - N V Sarat Chandran, Manager, Doon Public School

elicitated with the best ‘E- School Award’ by World Education Awards 2013 at the World Education Summit held at Le Meridian Hotel, New Delhi, Doon Public School is a co- educational, CBSE affiliated, Senior Secondary School celebrating 35 years of service to the nation. The school enjoys a unique distinction of being the first school in India to have computer-aided teaching and learning through Smart Class using plasma screen with Smart Assessment System (SAS) in all the classes. The school has received the ‘Best ICT Laboratory School Education Award 2010’ for being pioneer in the field of Digital Learning. The British Council Projects are also being undertaken by the school to vie for International School Award (ISA), which help the students to strengthen their skills and talents.

The school provides the right academic ambience for nurturing the talent of each and every individual. The school has a lecture theatre provided with interactive board and facility for videoconferencing, a ‘Biotechnology Lab’, with the facility of ‘tissue culture’ and a ‘Fashion Studies Lab’ that trains the students in the theory and practice of garment manufacturing. There are special animation classes and an exclusive Lexile Framework for reading for the students.

While concepts and generalisations are developed mainly through theory

but they get crystallised through practical work.

To facilitate students with new modern techniques in learning mathematical concepts through educational aids, the first digital Maths Lab of India has been installed in the school. The Abacus and Vedic Maths programmes help the students to achieve an extremely high standard of mental arithmetic and help the students excel in Bhaskara. The sports faculty of the school imparts coaching in all the games and athletic disciplines and a well equipped gymnasium in the school ensures the physical fitness.

Amongst the other fundamental features of the school, the ‘Language Lab’ occupies a significant place as it aims at improving the students’ communication skills. Further, the ‘Digital Library’ with more than 18000 books online is a blessing to the students.

The school has extended its contribution to the social concerns such as Mother Empowerment for Educational Development (MEED), ‘Rural Education Mission’ and ‘Hope For the Future’ and is empowering the mothers of the school children with computer aided learning, English speaking skills and parenting skills. ‘Hope For the Future’ is a programme to empower the under privileged for their enrichment and vision in life to make them independent.

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Educating more than 130 Million People Worldwide

Srikanth B Iyer, CEO Company Name Pearson Education Services Year of Inception: 2007 Employees: 4000 Website www.digiclass.in

Head Office Pearson Education Services Pvt Ltd 10, 3rd Main, Ashwini Layout Intermediate Ring Road, Ejipura Koramangala, Bangalore 560 047, Karnataka, INDIA Tel: 08030461060 Sales and after-sales support 1800 3000 0050

Email: digiclass@edurite.com

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earson Education Services is part of Pearson group, the world’s leading learning company. Pearson is a global education, media and publishing group, represented by market-leading businesses such as the Addison-Wesley, Longman, Financial Times. From preschool to high school, early learning to professional certification, the company offers curriculum materials, multimedia learning tools, assessment and testing programmes that help to educate more than 130 million people.

Products and Solutions Pearson Education Services (PES) provides end-to-end education solutions in the K-12 segment, with a focus on technological innovations. Being a part of Pearson, PES aims to seamlessly combine content and technology and offer customised solutions of international standards to audiences not just in India but worldwide. PES’s current market

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offerings include: School management services, by way of which they manage, operate and build high quality schools

Awards and Achievements • IDA Awards 2013 – for excellence in Information, communication and technology at World DIDAC India • E-Maharashtra award; for best multimedia content for K-12 education • The Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the highest official UK awards for British businesses • National Business Awards • Marico Innovation Award • President Award for IT • Manthan Award for Best e-Content • Jury Award at eINDIA 2011

across the country that leverage Pearson’s global knowledge and expertise in the school space; on-line tutoring, that offers quality online tuitions to students across the world at very affordable prices; ICT solutions known as DigiClass, for both schools and higher education institutions by employing the DigitALly application; technology aided coaching classes and test preparation services for various Entrance (CET, AIEEE, IITJEE,AIPMT) and School/Board exams (State, CBSE, ICSE).

Target Vertical School Principals and Management

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Networks for Funding and T & P Yashraj Rao, Co-Founder & Director-Marketing & Sales Anurag Gaur, CEO & Co-Founder Company Name Esquvi Technologies Pvt Ltd Year of Inception: 2011 Employees: 10 Email: helpdesk@esquvi.com

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ounded in March 2011, Esquvi Technologies is a NOIDA based software firm. The key areas of business focus for the company are software technologies development and consultancy. So far the company has been providing software consultancy services mainly to clients spread over the US and Australia especially in the charity and Not for profit sector.

The Esquvi Advisory board comprises of Dr R S Nirjhar, Former Chairman, AICTE, Ani Agnihotri, Program Chair, India-USA business summit and Punit Modgill, Former Dirctor Marketing, Microsoft India.

Recently, the company has launched a software platform “Synergize” that caters to professional educational institutions.

Synergize won the award at the WES 2013 (World Education Summit jointly organised by AICTE, NCERT and UNESCO) under the Start-up initiative category. The jury appreciated the fact that Synergize brings in vast operational efficiencies for

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all the key stakeholders of any professional educational ecosystem viz Faculty/ Administration, Students, Alumni and T&P (trainings and placements). In a matter of couple of months of the platform go-

USP

• Path breaking and revolutionary Alumni Management Solutions, and Trainings and placements automation • Alternative source of funding platform for institutions through Alumni & corporate • Process automation of Pre scanning and short listing of student • Short-listing, verification & sharing of resumes of students for T&P is a matter of few clicks • Creates social momentum for grants and charity • Auto Sync your Facebook and Twitter profiles • Records maintenance becomes easier

Website: www.esquvi.com Head Office 5th Floor SB Tower, Sector-16A, Noida Sales and after-sales support +91 9810501744

ing live, it is finding widesprea acceptance with both new as well established institutes. While the new institutes are finding value in the T&P module, the govt institutes & others that have been around for a long time are finding the alumni management solutions exciting. A testimony of this is the fact that two Regional engineering colleges have already started the adoption of the Synergize platform and several others are evaluating it

Products and Solutions Synergize’s alumni management module helps the institute get access to much needed funds through Alumni network and corporates. The T&P module helps streamline the placement cell in data verification of students, short-listing and sharing of student resumes with companies visiting the campus in a few clicks.

Target Vertical All professional education institutions and vintage institutions

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Developing English Skills with Ease Dr Haresh Tank, Managing Director Company Name Station-e Info Services Pvt Ltd Leadership Team Rajesh M Rajyaguru, Paresh P Joshi, Hasit A Dashani

Head Office STATION-e House, 2-Jalaram, Near Veraval Mercantile Bank, University Road, Rajkot – 360007 Phone: 0281-2570201

CEO Darshan A Dashani

E-mail info@station-e.com

Year of Inception: 2005

Website www.station-e.com

Number of Employees: 35+ Customer support 02812574567

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tation-e stands synonymous with skills development and training.

As a training company, Statione has established language labs, skills development centres and digital classrooms across the wider spectrum of management institutes, engineering colleges, universities and several other educational institutions. The company has trained tens of thousands of students, professionals and employees of various business organisations at their centres spread across the country. The company offers futuristic training programmes designed to cater to the demand of skills training for the bright future of the country.

Station-e has embedded technology deep into thier training to ensure that learners have a customised and personalised experience of learning. The company has the resources, expertise and commitment to spark a skills revolution in the country.

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Skills Development Centre for Universities, Engineering and Management Institutes and digital classroom for Schools: Courses Communicative English Communicative English for Professionals Call Centre Training Conversational Proficiency

Students and Institutions lookng for skills development programmes

Business Highlights and Achievements • Generally it takes around 10 weeks to acquire adequate ability to speak English; However, it takes lesser than this at Station-e • We have established our Twenty One(21) Centre in India across Nine(09) States Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jammu-Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Assam.

• We have trained more than 1,00,000 learners.

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Top Clients • National Institute of Technology, Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh • Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) • Govt Degree College For Womens, Anantnag • Ahir College, Rewari • Rao Lal Singh College of Education, Sidhrawali • M S Kakde College Someshwarnagar, • Pune Arts College, Limkheda • Maharaja Lakshaman Sen Memorial College, Sundernagar • Swami Ganga Giri Janta Girls College Raekot, Ludhiana • Madresa-E-Mustafaiya, Bharuch

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Solutions for Higher Education V S N Raju, CEO Company Name Globarena Technologies Private Limited

Email: sales@globarena.com Website: www.globarena.com

Chairman M A Chary Leadership Team Dr Giri Tiruvuri BSVS Ramchander P Santosh Kumar Shaik Ilyas

Head Office East Block 605-612, 6th Floor, Swarnajayanthi Complex, Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500 038 Regional Office(s) Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Bhopal, Anand, Jaipur, Bhubaneshwar

Year of Inception: 2000 Employees: 160

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lobarena Technologies is a leading learning and assessment company operating in the higher education space offering wide range solutions to enhance learning and assessment. The solutions offered

by Globarena are a fine combination of human-led interventions and eLearning that can be delivered using ICT tools and infrastructure. The company is one of the pioneering technology solution provider for universities and provided their digital self-learning solutions on employability skills, online examination solutions and have delivered end-to-end examination management that includes a gamut of services ranging from online candidate registration, examination conduction (both online and proctored), online evaluation, result processing and result declaration.

Business Collaborations Globarena Technologies has partnership with NASSCOM, University of Cambridge ESOL and CertiPort to deliver benchmark

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Business Highlights and Achievements • Conducted online exam to assess language, behavior (psychometric), and employability skills for more than 1000+ students across India • Selected by NASSCOM as Assessment Partner for conducting NAC 2.0, which is a screening test for entry level opening with the BPO industry • Designed and developed Faculty Enablement Program (FEP) for more than 4000 faculty for Institute of Electronic Governance Andhra Pradesh (IEGAP) • Conducted assessments to faculty and students of Commissionerate of Collegiate Education – Government of Andhra Pradesh in partnership with University of Cambridge ESOL, UK

Sales and after-sales support 040-32212210

industry recognised assessment recognised by corporate world for hiring talent for their entry level positions.

Products and solutions GEMS, TekEdge, Digital Labs (English Lab, Career Lab, Aptitude Lab), OnMard, OneX, Centre of Excellence (COE), Assessment, 4M (Instructor Led Training)

Target Vertical Higher Education and Government

Top Clients Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada (JNTUK), NASSCOM, Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, Prof. G. Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education Osmania University, Anna University, Rayalaseema University, Yogi Vemana University, Vikrama Simhapuri University, and Walchand College of Engineering.

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e-learning Solutions to Schools Hariharan M, Managing Director Company Name Hicommands Tech India Limited

Email: trs@hicommandsmail.com Website: www.hicommands.com

Leadership Team Senaprasad M, Lakshmipriya M, Srinivas TR

Head Office 184/2, NSK SALAI, Vadapalani, Chennai - 600 026

Year of Inception: 2006 Employees: 100

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icommands is a team of spirited young people committed to change the way the world learns by wielding the power of technology and the concepts of instructional design to simplify learning to its essence. In the process, the company also makes it come alive with rich graphics and audiovisuals that seek to engage the learner and enrich the learning process. Hicommands specialises in delivering high quality e-learning solutions to corporate organisations and educational institutions worldwide and helps them with robust, reliable and cost-effective IT solutions to their learning needs. With a team of 100+ trained personnel who strive to achieve its mission, vision and objectives, Hicommands act as the fulcrum between schools and technology by providing turnkey solutions to enable ICT based education. Hicommands had compiled hybrid media content integrated seamlessly across any media, to offer curriculum - based augmented education, for all subjects and in the process had

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With the ambitiously steady growth of universities from 343 in 2004-05 to 610 in 2012-2013, India holds a promise to emerge as the university capital of the world.

Among these, the private universities demonstrate strong potential to reap the benefits of the massive youth population of the country by reaching out to the aspirants with average cut-offs and good scholarship facilities By

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early 45 percent of 610 universities in the country are private universities (including private deemed universities), which clearly indicates that the emerging private universities are set to dominate the market soon.

“The higher education growth graph was gentle till 2000 and then onward there is a sudden jump both in number of universities and colleges. The growth of the number of private players in the sector made this jump possible giving way to high rate of student enrolment. Private universities hold a good share in this growth,” said Dr Akhilesh Gupta, Secretary, University Grants Commission (UGC).

Can these new set of self-financed institutions train the 430 million young people of the country and emerge as a strong contender for its global counterparts and create a benchmark for the nation worldwide in every field?

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Quality and Quantity- Striking the right balance The private universities have demonstrated their capability to sustain some of the latest techniques and technological advancements in the teaching learning pedagogy. A lingering thought of many educa-

Private Universities are “established through a State/Central Act by a sponsoring body viz. A Society registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, or any other corresponding law for the time being in force in a State or a Public Trust or a Company registered under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. - MHRD tionists have often fixed on whether these universities will help us create a footprint in the globe.

With quality education on priority of the national agenda of 12th Five-Year Plan, can private universities demonstrate a sustainable model in the long run?

“It is indeed true that so many universities are opening up in the country, but, we are only increasing the numbers with less focus on quality enhancement even now,” says Dr Kuncheria P Issac, Member Secretary, All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

The boom in the private university sector will expectedly boost their quality of deliverance to be able

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India is still to make a consistent mark among

top 200 in global rankings, despite of having nearly 34, 000 institutions in the country

Chitkara University

to remain well-accepted in the sector.

“The large market size of private universities has given rise to strong competition. Previously, most of the institutes were government-run and they can get allotted funds without much competition,” said Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, Lovely Professional University. On the contrary as suggested by Dr Upinder Dhar, Vice Chancellor of JK Lakshmipat University at Jaipur, “A number game in education would ultimately lead to commercialisation.”

As we increase the number of universities in the country, it is also improtant to check the quality of deliverance. As told by Dr Anup K Singh, Director General & Chairman, Nirma University, Gujarat, “The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational InstitutionsiBill, 2010 needs to be passed

andran, Vice Chancellor, Hindustan University, Chennai.

For research activities, it is important to boost the infrastructure of the campuses accordingly, plan the curricula and class timings in a manner so as to encourage faculty to take up research as passion, and explore new opportunities in the research field.

“Over past 10 years, there has been a vertical expansion in the education sector without much of work being done at the base like producing more number of PhD scholars and contributing to the country’s intellectual base,” said Dr Madhu Chitkara, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University (Punjab Campus). “We need to work on the fundamentals.”

However, fighting against challenges, some universities have found unique ways to encourage their faculty mem-

A university should be able to cater to a large number as that also helps in bringing down the cost of education

Growth in the number of private players gave way to high rate of student enrolment since 2000

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and all institutions need to be accredited.

With such a framework in place we can definitely promote quality in education.”

Against the backdrop of this debate over competition and commercialisation, let’s take a look at some of the decisive factors that spark concern unanimously.

Research and innovation: According to UGC annual report (2011-12), of the 12.26 percent post-graduate students only 0.79 were in research. Out of these 1.61 lakh research students enrolled in different streams, 79.43 percent students were in the universities. This makes it clear that universities hold a potential to emerge as a hub of research activities if nurtured well.

“The major drawback in higher education sector is investment in research and infrastructure,” said Dr S Ramach-

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India is a country of large number of middle class people whose household income ranges

3.4 lakh to Rs17lakh (at price from

levels of 2009-10). By 2015-16, India will be a home for

53.3

million middle class households (estimated 267 million people) said a report

by National Council for Applied Economic Research’s (NCAER) Centre for Macro Consumer Research.

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bers to continue research. For instance, as Dr Ashok Saxena, Vice Chancellor, Galgotias University said, “Being a threeyear old university, we are still in the process of creating a strong infrastructure for research. But, that does not stop us from encouraging research and innovation. We are partnering with the universities that do have the research labs to pursue research activities.

Attracting quality faculty: The faculty that you often recruit is initially not up to the mark and is not customised

to the requirements of one’s university, pointed rightly by Satyanarayana Koneru, President, K L University, Andhra Pradesh. “So, to orient our faculty members according to the requirements of the university, we have started our own faculty training college on campus. The senior faculty members of the University and professionals from the industry train the faculty over three months post their joining,” he added.

On an idealistic note, Dr Madhukar G Angur, Chancellor, Alliance University, Bangalore says “Private universities should be able to attract and retain the best talent as faculty resources by creating a conducive working ambience and by making teaching and research a lucrative career destination through continuous assistance.”

So, in gist, quality faculty is not a generic term, the profundity of the term depends on the size of the organisation they serve, number of students they teach and lot more. Transforming a faculty to the needs of the organisation is the job of the university. In this global changing environment when every new batch of students comes already better learnt than their predecessors, it is important to emphasise on faculty’s learning as well, Dr Chitkara pointed out.

Some of these universities are making innovative efforts to attract foreign faculty to their campuses and give their students and faculty members a global exposure.

JK Lakshmipat University is doing one joint research project with University of Wales, funded by British Council on Small and Medium Enterprise Initiative with the aim of giving global exposure to our faculty. With such initiatives in place, we hope to see some of our faculty going and teaching in foreign universities too, stated Dr Dhar optimistically.

Chitkara University too organises a Global Engineering week every semester where Faculty from various nationalities visit their campus for a duration of one week to conduct short term courses for the students, informed Dr Chitkara.

However, the number of full-time faculty members in these campuses is

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455 more universities by 2020 with 30% GER in higher education

Nation is talking of establishing nearly 9 lakh crore to achieve not much and as told by Prof Prem Vrat, Vice-Chancellor, ITM University, Gurgaon “Financial models need to be revisited to be able to attract foreign faculty and sustain foreign students to Indian Campuses on a full-time basis.”

To ensure that these universities maintain quality and also increase in numbers, it is indeed of utmost importance to have multiple quality assurance and accreditation bodies in the country. The same was emphasised by Dr Isaac, “There is an immense need of more than one accreditation body to ensure that the quality of regulation for the programmes/ courses to be accredited improve.”

Private university education can get cheaper As of day, cost of studying in most private universities in the country burns a hole in the pocket. Though the numbers have gone up, the dream of taking admission is dearer. Some might call it commercialisation of education, but can this be curbed through industry and public support?

“India has adopted not-for-profit university models and at the same time they have left limited scope to private universities to receive funds from the funding agencies.

The field is not level playing. To prevent the cost of education from being transferred completely to the students, the government must reconsider their funding model,” says Rajendra Kumar Pandey, President, NIIT University, Rajasthan.

Adding to the point, Dr Saxena says, “There is no justification that we should be charging undergraduate students to be able to afford expensive equipments that post graduate students would be using.” He further cited the example of National Science Foundation (an independent US Government agency) that accepts proposals at equal platform from both public and private institutions for granting funds and uses peer review for

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Hindustan University

National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutions Bill, 2010The Bill seeks to make it mandatory for every higher educational institution and programme to be accredited by independent accreditation agencies working under the oversight of an Accreditation Regulator to manage issues of conflict of interest and ensure objectivity and transparency in the accreditation process.

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development (26-March, 2012)

approval process. “Even if the NSF is been able to fund the 15 to 20 percent of the proposals they receive, it creates competition; it creates a feeling among the people to win that competition.”

For education to emerge as a successful model among the middle class population, it is important that we focus on inclusive and quality education at an affordable rate. But, with no direct regulatory body for private universities, there is a great difference in their fee and curriculum structure.

As Prof Isaac said, “Most of these private universities charge enormously high fees and function at their own whims and end up setting own quality standards which might not be sufficient to cater to the student aspirations.”

“If a major share of our graduates are coming from private institutions, in what way are these private institutions contributing less towards human resource development of the country?” asked Prof Vrat. In fact, this is a concern highlighted by most universities in the private sector.

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Alliance University

Galgotias University

Out of

12.26% post-graduate students only 0.79 were in research

The nation is talking of establishing 455 more universities by 2020 at a cost of nearly 9 lakh crore to achieve the 30% gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education. Both the private and the public universities (self-financed) have reached out to the youth population of the country and are contributing towards the accomplishment of the national GER as much as the public universities as doing. What might be debatable at this juncture is whether funding bodies should treat all universities at par and strengthen them equally for the nation’s good?

The 12th Five-Year Plan emphasizes on making education accessible and inclusive by setting up more and more universities and colleges. But, how about improving the quality of the existing ones, especially the private ones that have mushroomed over the past few years?

Dr S Ramachandran, who was formerly the Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras prior to joining Hindustan University, Chennai said that,

NIIT campus

“Most of the states in our country have a state university and inclination is more towards improving their own university rather than the private ones in the state.

However, opportunity to improve quality is much more in private institutes as funding process is easier than the government institute, he added.

Whereas there is a hot debate on importance of government support especially for research programmes, if not

other funds, there are few universities that have shown sustenance over time.

As Ashok Mittal marked, “More than twenty thousand students of Lovely Professional University are studying on LPU scholarship, which have touched almost 200 crores of rupees now. We also guide our students on the various the central and the state scholarship schemes available” One thing that becomes clear is that financial support for making private uni-

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The large market size of private universities has given rise to strong competition.

Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, Lovely Professional University

versity education affordable cannot be ignored. The industry can also step in to collaborate with universities to help students from getting educated by over-paying.

Scaling the global steps With more than 34, 000 institutions in the country, we do not have many global ranks to our credit. Though we have IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay among top 50 in Asia, but none of the universities got a ranked in the top 200 in recent global rankings. With autonomy and self-financed structure, can these modern day universities fetch a global ranking for the nation?

With much conviction, Dr Chitkara says, “With stiff competition around and many of the Indian private universities putting their best efforts, I am sure that universities of our country would soon start figuring in the top bracket of the world.”

However, to be in the top bracket of institutions of the world, research is of utmost importance. Keeping aside the private universities, as the The Kakodkar Committee report suggests, even the top IITs are producing 1,000 PhD scholars

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To completely exclude private universities from competing for funds is a step in the wrong direction.

Dr Ashok Saxena, Vice Chancellor, Galgotias University every year, which is much below the average of 8,000 to 9,000 PhD scholars being produced by USA and China each.

“All major institutions are in the control of the government. They don’t lack funds and they are well equipped with resources. The only thing needed among these universities is commitment and change of mindset,” said Satyanarayana Koneru.

To emerge as a strong competitor, we also need to have more number of accredited institutes with strong research framework in our country. The private universities may consider playing stronger in this field to be able to serve the national interest better.

As Prof Vrat mentioned, “private university is a recent phenomenon. Focus on research as important ingredient. In a self-financed set-up, research funding is understandably not so high.

In addition, the dichotomous fixative mindset of students and parents that a student from any government university is necessarily good as compared to a pass out from any private university, need to change.”

Private universities hold a strong potential to be in the top league. To be able to make these private universities a public experience, the need of the hour is to identify their key strengths and join hands with them to work for the overall development and discriminate. While opening new universities is essential to meet the world’s average Gross Enrolment Ration at the same time, the focus should be on quality improvement of the existing universities too. Also, we need to have more and universities that can train many hands in one campus for which, as Dr Isaac says, “What is advisable to these private players is to function in a collaborative manner with their counterparts. So, if there is a good management and technical institute, a medical college, a college of professional studies in one particular region, they can come together to form an university in that region rather than opening a overall new university in that region providing the same courses. In that way, faculty crunch, infrastructural issues can also be addressed well. This way, teaching many students under one roof would also reduce the cost of education for the students and make learning more inclusive in nature.

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Skill Development

Development of skills in India needs a renewed focus from the industry as well as private players. It includes bridging the skills mismatch at the college level and in rural hinterlands.

Chhavi Bakaria, ENN, explores further

Whet Your Skill “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” - Rabindranath Tagore

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agore’s words are as true today as when he spoke them, especially in context of the massive target set by the Government -Skilling 500 million Indians by 2022.

It indeed is a huge task that the government has set for itself, but it cannot be achieved unless contributions are made by all stakeholders including both public and the private sector. An added urgency comes with the rapid growth in the country’s population that is accompanied by an unprecedented demographic transition.

In the coming three to four decades India will become a remarkably young country, with more than half of its population under 25, an obvious advantage when compared to other Asian nations such as Japan that are grappling with a graying population.

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And for India to reap economic benefits from its often quoted demographic dividend, the challenge of skill development needs to be addressed in a combat mode.

“We are working towards achieving national goal of skilling 500 million Indians by 2022. While doing so, we have a larger challenge at hand and that is to excite and engage the youth of the country to participate without inhibitions,” says Dr Pallam Raju, Union Minister for Human Resource Development.

“There is a need for concentrated efforts to create an ecosystem that assigns dignity to vocational education. This will go a long way in addressing the current aspiration mismatch where everyone aspires for a qualification, but qualifications alone don’t lead to jobs,” he adds.

Government in charge Recognising its importance, the Government of India has adopted skill development as a national priority over the next 10 years. Through the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plans it has finalised a detailed road-map for skill development in India, and favoured the formation of Skill Development Missions, both at the state and national levels.

At national level, a ‘Coordinated Action on Skill Development’ with threetier institutional structure consisting of the PM’s National Council on Skill Development, the National Skill Development Coordination Board (NSDCB) and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) was created in early 2008.

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Apart from a majority of degree and diploma holders, approximately

200

million students drop out of classes IX, X, XI and XII, and are in dire need of vocational skills to become

employable

64%

Around of India’s population is expected to be in the age bracket of 15–59 years by 2026, with only 13% of the total aged above 60 years tries, several sector skill councils (SSCs), 35 state skill development missions, and several trade and industry bodies — are putting their best foot forward to push the national skill development agenda.

The Ministry of Labour Employment has set up 2500 government ITIs and 7000 private ITIs to fulfill their training targets. The vocational training infrastructure under the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) consists of public/ privately owned Polytechnics and vocational schools.

The Figure illustrates national level agencies which come under the purview of National Skill Development Authority, their key initiatives and their respective targets for 2022.

In 2013, the Government constituted the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) for coordinating and harmonising the skill development efforts of the Centre and the private sec-

tor to achieve the skill targets of the 12th Five-Year Plan and beyond.

J P Rai, Director General, NSDA, says, “There is a need to inculcate the value of skills. We must recognise the importance of training providers and they must reach out to the district level.

NSDA will coordinate and harmonise the skill development efforts of the Government and the private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the 12th Plan and beyond and endeavour to bridge the social, regional, gender and economic divide.”

Figure: NSDA and National Level Agencies with target for skill training under its purview National Skill Development Agency National Level Agencies NSDC

MoE (DGE&T)

18 ministries and Departments

MHRD

Key Initiative CTS

NCVT

Other Scheme

Funding Facilitation Advocacy

SSCs

K12 Schools

Vocational School

Higher Education

Various Initiatives

Training Target for 2022 100 Million

150 Million

50 Million

200 Million

Source: National Skill Development Policy, Government of India

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Q& Skills Enhance Competitive A Advantage of a Nation Subhasish Biswas, Head – Business Excellence, Wipro BPO, shares the company’s endeavours in the skills development space Elaborate upon the role to be played by private sector in skill development.

If India has to capitalise on its ‘Demographic Dividend’ then skill training is of paramount importance. While the government plays an active role in education and skilling, it is in the Industry’s own interest to contribute towards it through joint initiatives with academia or social sector organisations, stand-alone training programmes, online knowledge-sharing programs, etc. Up-skilling workforce can provide a competitive advantage to a nation.

What are your skill expectations from the academic institutions or young graduates?

The academic institutions should impart the ability to apply theoretical knowledge in real life situations in their students.

Upping employability skills in fresh graduates India is the 10th largest economy in the world and business houses in the country will require workers, the young in particular.

But, unlike in the economically saturated markets of the U S and Europe, where many highly skilled applicants are fighting over few jobs, millions of job seekers in India lack the skills desired by the Industry even after acquiring impressive sounding diplomas or degrees.

Vocational education and training (or VET) in professional courses like engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, architecture, pharmacy, law, etc is the need of the hour to make students industry-ready.

“When we build skills among our students, we are building the entire nation, but education imparted in majority of institutions is exam-oriented and not skilloriented. There is an increasing need for sector specific skills through professional trainings”, says VSN Raju, Chief Operating Officer, Globarena Technologies.

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They should also look at enhancing the skill of articulation and colleges need to introduce courses aimed at enhancing the communication and presentation skills of the students.

Tell us about initiatives undertaken by Wipro to improve skills among Indian graduates.

We have launched our new programme “WISEPro”. The nation-wide initiative, seeks to impart communication and soft skills training to undergraduates, predominantly from nonengineering colleges, with the aim of improving their employability in the IT, Business Process Management (BPM), as well as other services sectors.

“We are working towards achieving national goal of skilling 500 million Indians by 2022. While doing so, we have a larger challenge at hand and that is to excite and engage the youth of the country to participate without inhibitions.”

Dr M M Pallam Raju, Union Minister for Human Resource Development

“I think vocational education should be done from the school level itself.

Also, very specific, rolebased vocational education has to be imparted once students finish college.”

T Muralidharan, Chairman, TMI Group

from the Industry as well as private skills training providers are collaborating with academia to impart industry desired jobskills among the young graduates.

For instance, TMI Group that works in sectors like retail, IT, healthcare, finance and automobile. Through the TMI e2E Academy and YES (Youth Employability Centre) it not only imparts job-specific training to the unemployed graduates, but also accesses their aptitude for a particular job role through proper counseling and guidance. It has placement tie-ups with big corporate such as Mahindra, Tata Motors, Axis Banks, HDFC Sales, Indian Immunological Ltd, Coromondal, Unilever Cell, etc.

“The university system does not create many skills other than maybe to write some exams. Also the students do not realise the need for skilling when they are in campus, but when they fail to find a job that is when they go for skills training. I think vocational education should be done from the school level itself from XIth or XIIth class onwards.

Also, very specific role-based vocational education has to be imparted once they

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Aspirational Gap is the Biggest Challenge Santanu Paul, MD & CEO, TalentSprint, tells about challenges in the sector Share with us the vision behind setting up of TalentSprint.

Unemployability of students is a socioeconomic problem. TalentSprint’s vision is to create a mechanism through which people, who are graduating, are upskilled rapidly, but with low cost. Currently, we are working with 80+ college partners. We are aiming to expand our footprint to 100 locations through franchise model and our own centres. We will also focus on online and distance mode of learning in future.

What are the main challenges in the skill development sector?

There are a lot of cross currents in the sector like whether the students or the government should pay for training. A grant model in skill development will eventually make the country broke.

Ideally, each job seeker should pay for the skills.

Also, we find that the biggest challenge is that of aspirational gap. For instance in China, people have progressed from one job role to another, but in India, even a farmer’s son wants a job at Infosys. We have glorified the air-conditioned, white collar jobs so much that the youth is psychologically walking away from jobs that entail hard work.

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finish college and before they join the industry,” says T Muralidharan, Chairman, TMI Group.

Ajay Sachdeva, Director Edulight Careers Pvt Ltd elaborates how vocational education can be an alternative to pricey, formal higher education. He says, “The need of the hour is not just expensive long-term courses, but also or in isolation the industry specific short-term courses, with proper soft skills training that will lead to all-round excellence.

Such training ensures that the students are ‘Industry ready’. Even abroad, the young brigade, have largely embraced short – term vocational courses vis-à-vis the more expensive long term ones. For India’s youth this is the way forward for a brighter and secure future.”

Private Sector in rural India XIIth pass, 24-year-old Krishna Gopal, hails from a farmer’s background and always knew that he would eventually enter the ancestral farming arena, but fate had other plans. He joined a twomonth Food Production course at the DLF Training Centre in Gurgaon.

“I was idle and clueless about my future and career goals, but after the training, I learnt many new aspects of Indian cookery through the theory and practical classes. Now, I am working as a chef at DLF City Club Phase IV in Gurgaon and earning `8,500 per month. I have become independent and I feel empowered,” says Krishna.

“SkillSonics imparts global level skills to entry-level and existing technicians.

There is no dearth of good workers in India, but they lack opportunities. We have seen people transforming after finishing a course and even the companies have paid them more.”

G P Chandra Kumar, Chairman and CEO, SkillSonics India Pvt Ltd There is a need to skill millions like Krishna, as the skilling challenge is magnified by the fact that 70 percent of young population falls in rural and tribal India.

The numbers are huge and solving the same is almost impossible unless there is integration of skill development and the formal education system. It demands a collective effort by varied government initiatives, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives to set up schools and training institutes and National Skills Qualification Framework.

A lot can be achieved through government and private partnership in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Currently, there are 2000 government ITIs in India and an additional 1500 have been proposed for the 12th Five-Year Plan (20122017). By 2012, 1775 of the existing 2000 ITIs had been adopted by Industry

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Skill Development is a lot more than just CSR Gayatri Paul, Associate Director, DLF Foundation, shares her experience

How is big corporate like DLF contributing to skill development in rural India?

Ever since NSDC has been formed there has been a movement in the area of skill development and a lot of training institutes have come up all over the country especially to cater to the bottom of the pyramid. It is a very important segment and should not be limited to non-profit sector. Now we have a whole bunch from corporate foundations as well as private companies participating in this area.

In addition to this, the new Companies Bill, 2013 requires all companies to spend two percent of their profits in the CSR in education, health and training areas. I think a lot of top 500 corporate will come forward in the space.

When you skill and train one household member, in a way you look after a whole family and so it is lot more than just CSR. Elaborate upon DLF’s ‘skill a million programme’.

We are working with three to four NSDC approved partners across 26 locations in India to train underprivileged section of the society. It is an employment linked programme and we have a host of partners who absorb those trained at our centres. We are into the areas of hospitality, F&B services, retail, and customer relations in sales for the BPOs, etc. We also have beauty culture and fashion designing training for women. We have trained 10,000 people who have been placed in various jobs with average salary of `5,000 to `10,000 per month. We plan to open 250 centres over next 10 years to reach our target. Mobilisation is a big challenge and most people in the rural areas are usually hand-to-mouth workers and are already into odd jobs. So for them to take out time for training is a problem. Another problem is that of trained faculty or trainers especially in remote areas.

Partners under the upgrading scheme of Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGE&T).

Upcoming trends Siddhartha Das, National Skills Leader, Ernst & Young, elaborates, “Vocational training through channels, such as apprenticeship, on-the-job training, financial and technical support to industrial training institutes, and the provision of decent employment opportunities continue to be the backbone of the skill development programmes of countries such as New Zealand, Germany, South Korea and Australia. The industry sector in India is now poised to step up its role in the country’s skill development initiatives.”

As per a report by the industry body FICCI, in the 12th Plan (2012-17), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) initiatives in VET present an opportunity of approximately USD 7 million per annum in the areas like content and trainer development. The Plan envisages the private sector to be engaged under the PPP model as ‘Academic Partner’ for ‘Teacher and Assessor training’ and ‘Academic content and curriculum development’. Thus foreign players can strategically engage with MHRD. Even the foreign players can participate in the training schemes by partnering with MoL&E or at the state level departments relating to VET to offer content, curriculum and Train the Trainer services to existing and upcoming ITIs. The National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) that is currently under development within the IndiaEU Skills Development Project and will be anchored by NSDA. Pilot vocational training initiatives are already underway with private and foreign institutional collaborations. For example, a pilot project has been launched with the coverage of 40 schools in the state of Haryana and 4 SSCs (Automotive, Security, IT and retail). The SSCs have developed occupational standards, curriculum and assessment packages and training modules across these sectors.

CBSE schools are soon going to feature vocational courses.

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National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) was set up in 2009 with a mission to fulfill the growing need for skilled manpower across sectors in India. Dilip Chenoy, MD & CEO, NSDC, shares the journey so far and the future plans, in conversation with Chhavi Bakaria How has been your journey at NSDC? How different is it from your work at Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)?

NSDC is a broader canvas. It is a little more complex than working for the automotive industry at SIAM. It is more or less going back to my days in CII where I used to handle 123 sectors under ASCON, so it is a tremendously challenging job. It is also fun as one gets to work with young people and requires travel.

In SIAM travel meant Frankfurt, Seoul, Shanghai, or Geneva, but at NSDC it can be Mumbai or little known districts like Medak, which is on the outskirts of Hyderabad. I get to see more of India, but the best thing is that I get to meet many knowledgeable people, who have done a lot of work in the space of skill development, and the best part is working in partnership with them to transform lives of millions of people in India.

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How successful has NSDC been so for in contributing towards government’s target of skilling 500 million Indians by 2022?

In total we have trained close to 7,45,000 people so far. In addition to this, we have imparted training to 100,000+ people under various government programmes. In the last three years NSDC has approved formation of around 92 training organisations that have a total capacity of training close to 12 million people a year, if they are on a full swing. So we have been successful

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of achieving the twin objectives of — first getting private sector to come and invest in skill development and second in terms of numbers. We have made a beginning, we are growing exponentially, but it’s a long way to go.

In addition to that, another mandate that was given to us was the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs). So in the first year (2010-11) we had no SSC. Today, we have 23 SSCs approved and running.

So we have been successful in creating a skill development ecosystem.

Please share NSDC’s experience with the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) model in the skill development space.

This is a very innovative model. If you look at Public-Private Partnership, it enables you to apply government-led initiatives to be delivered by the private sector. What is different about the NSDC model is that it’s not a grant model. It is a self-sustaining model. In fact the STAR scheme that we have launched recently in August 2013 is another model of taking a programme that is conceived as an incentive, and delivering it through PPP model, which is private sector led and involves the industry.

Currently, how many private partners are working with NSDC? How do you keep a performance check?

We approved 87 partners in the last Board meeting and this number is expected to go up to 92. We have approved 23 SSCs. 12 SSCs are active currently, but now because the STAR programme, all have become active.

The interesting part is that we have a three to four years funding mechanism.

The first bunch is disbursed when the partners meet some pre-disbursal conditions. However, the second bunch is disbursed when they achieve milestones.

So what we find is that initially a lot of companies over-project their initial targets. Thus instead of taking the second bunch in six months or one year they take it after one year or 18 months.

But most of the companies have met their first year targets, maybe extended

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“There is a huge need to actually work with engineering students because the number of students who find a job after completing engineering is very miniscule

but nine to 10 of our partners are meeting the targets year after year. Some of the partners are meeting the placement percentages also, slowly and steadily. For instance, if we take the three-year old partners, most of them have stabilised, some are doing smaller numbers, but they have stabilised and they are making surpluses. Two-year old partners are in the process of getting surplus. The one year old partners are learning from the experience of two and three years old partners. So it’s a learning process. One or two partners have not done well, but that’s rare.

How important is it to integrate vocational skills into mainstream education especially in context of the engineering education?

The integration of vocational and mainstream education in India is a must to bridge the skills gap. There is a huge need to actually work with engineering students because the number of students who find a job after completing engineering is very miniscule. It is the competency of the people we wish to improve. Now competency has three aspects – skills, knowledge and attitude.

Knowledge and attitude is what the

education system normally provides.

So the skills are what one either learns on the job or one takes up a separate course. So for all types of people, school dropouts, college students or engineering students, at all these levels there are different types of interventions possible that can enable them to bridge the divide between the world of education and the world of work.

How do you see the skill development sector performing in the coming years and what targets has NSDC set for itself?

NSDC has hiked its current year’s target to about one million as compared to that of 400,000 last year. The estimate is that the skills development sector has an annual turnover about a USD 20 billion. Given the fact that we need to skill 500 million people and we are looking at 6000 to 60,000 companies either already working or planning to work in this space, so it is going to expand. It is one of the few areas in today’s bleak economic scenario, which requires investment and has a growth of upwards of 25 percent, and gives you fairly decent return on investment when you get the right business model.

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Business Collaborations MeritTrac has established global partnerships that support its goal of providing best in class, end-to-end and innovative examination services such as RM Education for delivering On Screen marking service to institutions in India.Also the company has partnership with Carnegie Speech for designing and development of automated spoken English test.

Application Processing: MeritTrac supports customers in processing applications in OMR or Online Application forms.

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Business Highlights and Achievements • Developed and administered tests for over 400 customers in more than 350 cities through 1100+ certified test centres

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Educational Institutions, University, Educational Boards, Government Departments and Boards, PSUs and corporate

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Next Education products are mapped to cover CBSE, ICSE and 23 state boards in 8 major Indian languages. Next Education’s strength lies in its Research & Development that is conducted in-house. Features such as CCE compliance, Technical advance 2D/3D animation, Linux based OS to lower overall cost of ownership & the remote operable system are some of the key strengths of this product.

Products and Solutions TeachNext - Digital classroom solution for Schools

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LearnNext - Individual learning solutions for students. NextLab - NextGeneration Personalised learning tool for

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Benefiting more than 2.1 Million Classrooms Chandan Sonowal, Managing Director Company Name SMART Technologies (India) CEO Neil Gaydon

India Ofiice 417, DLF Tower A, Plot No.10, Jasola District Centre, Jasola New Delhi - 110027 India Email: SMARTIndia@smarttech.com

Year of Inception: 1987 Website: www.smarttech.com/in Head Office SMART Technologies 3636 Research Road NW Calgary, AB T2L 1Y1, Canada

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MART Technologies Inc is a leading provider of collaboration solutions that transform the way the world works and learns. We believe that collaboration and interaction should be easy. As the global leader in interactive whiteboards, we bring more than two decades of collaboration research and development to a broad range of easy-touse, integrated solutions. The solutions aim at freeing the people from their desks and computer screens, so collaborating and learning with digital resources are more natural. The company introduced the world’s first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and remains the global product category leader, providing easy-to-use, integrated products and services. SMART products are used in over 2.1 million classrooms and more than 40 million students benefit from them. Award-winning SMART Notebook collaborative learning software is currently used by more than 5 million people around the world. SMART’s superior solutions and technology roadmap is built on strong base of innovation

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with hundreds of patents granted and pending internationally. SMART is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with offices around the globe.

Products and Solutions SMART Class, SMART Classroom, Collaborative learning software, Interactive whiteboards, Interactive flat panels, Interactive Projector, Interactive Table, Interactive pen displays, Student Response Systems, Audio Enhancement Systems,

Business Highlights More than 2.3 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards have been installed globally in education, business and government settings, with over two million installed in K–12 classrooms, reaching more than 40 million students and their teachers. SMART Notebook collaborative learning software has been downloaded by more than six million users in over 175 countries around the world.

Customer support 18001033938

Document Camera, Conferencing Software, A full line of Interactive learning Softwares and more.

Target Vertical Education and Business

Clients • Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Mumbai • Chennai Public School, Chennai • VidyaMandir Senior Secondary School, Chennai • Lawrence School, Kormangla, Bangalore • Delhi Public School, R K Puram, Delhi • Ebenezer Marcus Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai • Ascend International School, Mumbai • D B Science College, Gondya, Nagpur • Manav Rachna International School, Faridabad • RBK International Academy, Mumbai

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Providing an Edge to Educators Sanjaya Sharma, CEO Company Name Tata Interactive Systems Management Team Amita Karia, CFO Head Office Leela Business Park, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400059, Maharashtra, India Tel: +91 22 6643 8000

Regional Office(s) Kolkata (Domestic) / Boston, Chicago, Dubai, London, New Jersey, New York, Toronto, Tubingen, Washington DC, Zurich (International) Sales and after-sales support 1-800-2099022 Website: www.tataclassedge.com

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good teacher knows that teaching is the art of helping students discover things. And the best way to do this is to get them involved in the learning process.

Tata ClassEdge, a holistic educational solution from Tata Interactive Systems, reflects this understanding of the teaching- learning process. Tata ClassEdge is designed to help teachers deliver high quality instruction, with an effective blend of classroom activities and interactive multimedia.

Based on the Multiple Learning Experiences (M-LEx) Model, an instructional framework developed by Tata Interactive Systems, Tata ClassEdge aims to enhance students’ social and thinking skills, while ensuring a thorough understanding of the curriculum content.

Business Highlights and achievements Global Leadership – Tata Interactive Systems has been a global leader in the design and development of eLearning for more than two decades, having won a number of international awards and

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USP • Engaging multimedia formats, including 3D animations, games, interactive tools and virtual labs • Lesson plans and multimedia from KG to 12th • Content mapped to each school’s particular textbook • A platform for continuous evaluation and practice • Real time content updates

nominations including Brandon Hall, APEX, BETT, BIMA, Codie, WOLCE, and others. TIS has the privilege of working with reputed international educational publishers in developing cutting-edge technology-enabled learning solutions, including virtual laboratories and online educational tools.

Products and Solutions Learning Solutions and products

Target Vertical K-12 Schools

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An Integrated Solution Specialist N Subramanian, Managing Director Number of Employees: 110

Company Name TRS Forms And Services Private Limited

Head Office 23, Chakrapani Street, West Mambalam, Chennai - 600 033 Phone: 0442372545

Year of Inception:1998 Leadership Team N Subramanian Dr Sankaran R Swaminathan Sarang Gagan M Ravichandran Jayaram

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stablished in 1998, TRS Forms and Services Pvt Ltd is a leading (ITES) provider of data capturing & imaging services to business stalwarts across various sectors in India, bringing technology and innovation into managing, processing and enhancing customer competitiveness. Pioneer then and a market leader today, TRS Forms made the first introduction of barcodes for dummy numbering in universities, a method which is now being popularly followed all over India. A step ahead, they also introduced the eSekure Mark as the ultimate security feature for universities.

The usual Indian dummy numbering system for subjective exams was transformed with the entry of FireEye scanner, an innovation possible only due to the high end Research and development competence

by TRS Forms, which could combine numbering, scanning and data capturing in a single pass. As an integrated solution specialist, TRS uses OMR, OCR and ICR methods in providing globally accepted advanced technology and customised support to Government departments, Educa-

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tional institutions, Market research firms, Healthcare, Banking, Insurance Sector and Manufacturing industries.

Products and Solutions OMR: Sales and service of OMR scanners. Scanning services using OMR scanners.

ICR/OCR software: Represent ABBYY software in India for the ICR / OCR software FireEye: A patent registered product of TRS. Helps in automating post exam dum-

Business Highlights and Achievements • Have been consistently involved in Research and Development • All the product or solution that TRS is offering is original and has been result of such R&D works • Have pioneered many technology based solutions in India • Have registered patent and IP products on hand

EMail: subu@trsforms.com Website: www.trsforms.com Customer support: 044 23725453

my numbering for all universities. It helps in fast turnaround of results with high level of accuracy. It is a must for every Indian University eSekure: Ultimate document security solution. No document can be secure without eSekure. It is not just secure but eSekure eXtractpro+: A OMR software helps in extracting OMR data from images. Is a unique product in that category and can really simulate the OMR scanner

Target Vertical Education, Corporate and Government

Top Clients • • • • • • • • • •

ICAI ICSI Institute of Cost Accountant Common Admission cell, Bangalore CET, Bangalore KPSC, Bangalore KSEEB, Bangalore Open University, Chennai Tamil Nadu Law University Karanataka Law University

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Virtual Classroom Solutions Harman Singh, Founder and CEO Company Name WizIQ Year of Inception: 2007 Leadership Team Faisal Khan, Sales Director Kalyan Sarkar, Director, Academic Liaisons

Head Office authorGEN Technologies Pvt Ltd, C-133, Second Floor, Phase-8 Industrial area, Mohali Tel: 01725020185 Email: academics@wiziq.com Customer support: +91-9216405405; +91-9897072888

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izIQ.com is an online education platform that offers SaaS based virtual classroom software for teachers, trainers, colleges and universities, high schools, and training and tutoring centres around the world. WizIQ has over 250,000 teachers and 3 million learners using the platform in more than 100 countries around the world. WizIQ provides tools for teachers to deliver education in online or blended learning formats, connect with students, share educational content, deliver live online classes and facilitate highly engaging learning experiences.

Products and Solutions Teach online students at the same time, anytime: WizIQ provides colleges and universities with the means to offer instructors and students the chance to collaborate and learn together in synchronous online classes.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): An MOOC can be comprised of live classes, video lectures, discussion forums, archived recordings, readings, and other course materials, all of which

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can be facilitated with WizIQ’s incredible online teaching software.

Offer distance learning programs: The live, interactive audiovisual communication of the Virtual Classroom, including screen sharing, video and text chat, and a virtual whiteboard, facilitates synchronous distance learning.

Business Highlights and Achievements • WizIQ won Best Innovation in Open and Distance Learning at World Education Summit (WES) 2011 • WizIQ won Best Education Webinar Series at Indian Education Awards 2012 and 2013 • WizIQ won Best Virtual Classroom Provider in Global e-Learning Awards 2012 and 2013 by World Education Congress • WizIQ has 3 million registered students as users • WizIQ has 250,00 registered teachers as users

Live-stream conferences: WizIQ’s Virtual Classroom provides all the tools needed to live-stream your college or university’s academic conferences across the internet, giving your distance learning students or other interested persons the opportunity to attend the event virtually.

Integrate with LMS or websites: WizIQ can be integrated with own website, and other systems like Moodle or Blackboard through a plug-in.

Target Vertical: Independent Teachers, Colleges and Universities, Corporations, Coaching Centres and Test

Top Clients • IITs • ISB Hyderabad • ISM Dhanbad • SRM University • VIT Vellore • SGI Institutes • Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning • ICICI • Westmoreland Intermediate Unit#7 • Kansas Correction Centre

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izIQ.com is an online education platform that offers SaaS based virtual classroom software for teachers, trainers, colleges and universities, high schools, and training and tutoring centres around the world. WizIQ has over 250,000 teachers and 3.5 million learners using the platform in more than 100 countries around the world.

WizIQ provides tools for teachers to deliver education in online or blended learning formats, connect with students, share educational content, deliver live online classes and facilitate highly engaging learning experiences. WizIQ works on PCs, iPad and Android tablets; and can be customised for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew (right to left) and other 12 languages.

Higher educational institutes like colleges and universities can offer online courses as part of distance education programmes, executive programmes or continual education programmes via WizIQ. WizIQ has been widely adopted for some or other educational requirements by premier institutes like IITs, ISB Hyderabad, ISM Dhanbad, SRM University, VIT Vellore, SGI Institutes, Symbiosis and many more.

For queries mail to Kalyan, at kalyan@wiziq.com or academics@wiziq.com

Technology Integration Solutions for your Institutes: • Reach a wider and more diverse student base.

• Blend technology into your pedagogical systems by going hybrid or going exclusively online.

• Launch Online Executive Programs.

• Launch MOOCs. WizIQ is agnostic to any set pedagogy; You decide your model, WizIQ will fit into it! Our Academic Liaison Team is ready to help you in your campus!

Scalability of your Conferences: • Live Webcast your Academic Conference.

• Let scholars present their papers online, from anywhere.

• Listen to online Keynote speeches

from experts who are unable to travel.

• Convert your conference into a MOOC-like online course.

Our Academic Liaison Team would like to make the process seamless for you at your campus.

A Supportive Market for your Educational Endeavours:

• Feature and market your online course in the Courses Marketplace with ease and effectiveness.

• Broad and specific categories lend high visibility to online courses.

• Spread awareness about your course via E-mail marketing and social media sharing options.

• A dedicated 24x7 support for teachers lets you focus on what you do best, that is, teaching!

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Technology-based English Language Skill Development Jasvinder Singh, CEO Company Name Words Worth English Language Lab Leadership Team J Figueiredo, Gurminder Vardhan

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ords Worth is a content development and delivery company. The product uses creative and innovative pedagogies, development tools, training and learning resources for skill building.

Words Worth is instrumental in bringing a change to the K-12 segment by introducing technology into the classroom. The belief that technology can be effectively used to develop skills is evident with Words Worth products based on the ALTE/ CEFR framework.

The products have found seamless integration with school, college and university curricula along with vocational and higher learning organisations across India.

Words Worth is all set to reach every home with its Haiku learning project meant to help students develop the required skills after school hours.

Business Collaborations • Rajasthan Knowlege Corporation Limited : RS-CEL project • SCOPE project under the aegis of the Government of Gujarat • Angla project for the Government of Karnataka • OEM products for several LMS companies.

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Head Office 2nd floor, Silicon towers, Near Law garden, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad – 380009, Gujarat, Tel: 079-30451451

Email: jasvinders@actuniv.com

Regional Office(s) Mumbai, Bangalore, Jaipur, Delhi

Website: www.wordsworthelt.com

Customer support: 079-30451451

Products and Solutions Words Worth’s bouquet of next generation learning products includes Words Worth Junior: for Schools, Words Worth Senior: for Colleges, Words Worth Virtual: for the individual learning, Papyrus: for institutions with limited infrastructure, Haiku: an after school learning activity. Words Worth provides on-site implementation, on-site training of teachers. Trainer Manuals, Flash Cards, Students’ Course-ware and continual Technical Support though is help-desk forms part of the total package.

The products are designed for multiuser environment with integrated collab-

Business Highlights and Achievements • Partnering implementation projects with 3 state Governments • Installation base of over 2,500 academic sites • Catering to the language enhancement requirements of more than 1 million learners annually • Recently launched India’s first on-line blended Learning English language learning portal “HaikuLearning.in” for School students

orative functions. Besides the learning elements, the products provide supervisory control and reporting, the subsequent advisory functions make the products unique. Assessment is an added feature for self evaluation. Words Worth actively participates in Government initiatives of mass skill development programs.

Target Vertical Schools, Colleges, Higher learning institutions, Vocational and Government capacity building programs.

Top Clients • IIT, Govt. of Gujarat through SCOPE project • Govt of Rajasthan through RS CEL project • Professional institutions • 500 + Colleges, 2000 + Schools • Training organisations • NSDC Partner companies.

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Company Listing Adobe Address: San Jose, California, USA Phone: 18001025567 Website: www.adobe.com/in Agile Learning Address: 209 Prajay Corporate House, Begumpet, Hyderabad Phone: +91 22 6643 8000 Email: ravi.putta@agilelearning.com Website: www.agilelearning.com American Institute of Enrichment Address: Level 4 Dynasty, A-Wing, Andheri-Kurla Road, Mumbai - 400069 Phone: 022-67869180 Email: info@theaie.org Website: www.theaie.org Armstrong Address: Boomerang, A-Wing, Unit No.304, 3rd Floor, Chandivali Farm Road, (Near Chandivali Studio), Andheri (East), Mumbai 400072 Phone: +91 22-30480800 Email: helpdeskindia@armstrong.com Website: www.armstrong.co.in CarveNiche Technologies Private Limited Address: 740, 7th Cross, 12th Main, BTM 2nd Stage, Bangalore – 560076 Phone: 080-41128730 Email: info@carveniche.com Website: www.carveniche.com Cyberfort Technologies Address: Cyberfort Technologies, 8th Floor, AMR, Tower II Manthan, Plot No. 9, Tech Zone, Expressway, Greater Noida, UP Email: amit.78.kumar@gmail.com Website: www.cyberfort.org Cybernetyx Interaktiv Address: Plot C-98, Sector - 65, NOIDA – 201301 Phone: 0120-4359466, +91 9818778982 Email: sales@cybernetyx.com Website: www.cybernetyx.com

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Educo International India Pvt Ltd Address: 116 Suneja Tower, District Center Janak Puri, New Delhi 110058 Email: contact@educo-int.com Website: www.educosoft.com

Hicommands Tech India Limited Address: 184/2, NSK SALAI, Vadapalani, Chennai - 600 026 Phone: +914442048072 Email: trs@hicommandsmail.com Website: www.hicommands.com

Esquvi Technologies Pvt Ltd Address: 5th Floor SB Tower, Sector-16A, Noida Phone: 0120-4158842 Email: helpdesk@esquvi.com Website: www.esquvi.com

Hitachi India Pvt Ltd Address: Unit 305-306 (3rd Floor), DLF Tower-A, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi-110025 Phone: 011-45551 5500 Email: sales@hitachi.co.in Website: www.hitachiconsumer.com/in

Epson Address: 12th Floor, The Millenia, Tower A, No. 1, Murphy Road, Ulsoor, Bangalore - 560008 Phone: 080 3051 5000 Phone: 18004250011 Email: sales@eid.epson.co.in Website: www.epson.co.in

Liqvid eLearning Services Pvt Ltd

Address: F - 3, Sector 8, Noida 201301 Phone: 0120-430-9000, 9910000630 Email: shikha.srivastava@liqvid.com Website: www.englishedge.in Products: Assessment Tools, Language Laboratories, Internal Assessments, Training Software Providers, Soft skills training.

Globarena Technologies Private Limited Address: East Block 605-612, 6th Floor, Swarnajayanthi Complex, Ameerpet, Hyderabad – 500038 Phone: 040-23750190 Email: sales@globarena.com Website: www.globarena.com

iPowerFour Technologies Pvt Ltd Address: 3-5-900/1, 4th Floor, NW Block, Aparajitha Arcade Himayat Nagar, Hyderabad-500029 Phone: +91 9849014496 Email: nagarajans@ipowerfour.com Website: www.ipowerfour.com i-POINT Consulting Services Pvt Ltd Address: 3rd Floor, PunjaBuildings, M G road, Mangalore 575003 Phone: 0824-4259758 Email: contact@i-point.co.in Website: www.i-point.co.in MeritTrac Services Pvt Ltd Address: G K Arcade, T Mariappa Road, 1st Block Jayanagar, Bangalore – 560011 Phone: 804013020 Email: info@merittrac.com Website: www.merittrac.com Mexus Education Private Limited 601-612, Midas, Sahar Plaza, MV Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400 059 Email: help.desk@mexuseducation.com Website: mexuseducation.com; ikenstore.com New Alfa Infotec Pvt Ltd Address: 205, Saraswati House, 27, Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019 Phone: 011-41030564 Email: amarjit@alfa-infotec.com Website: www.alfa-infotec.com

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Next Education India Pvt Ltd Address: Sri Nilaya Cyber Spazio, Road # 2, 8-2-269/A/2/1-6, 1st floor, East Wing, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500033 Andhra Pradesh, India Phone: 040-3094942 Email: info@nexteducation.in Website: www.nexteducation.in Pearson Education Services Address: Pearson Education Services Pvt Ltd 10, 3rd Main, Ashwini Layout Intermediate Ring Road, Ejipura Koramangala, Bangalore 560 047 Phone: 0803046106 Email: digiclass@edurite.com Pearson Clinical & Talent Assessment Address: Alpha Centre, #20 Koramangala Inner Ring Road, Bangalore 560047 Phone: 080-42153440 Email: info@pearsonclinical.in cogmedindia@pearson.com Website: www.cogmed.in www. pearsonclinical.in

Pearson Education Services Address: 10, 3rd Main, Ashwini Layout Intermediate Ring Road, Ejipura Koramangala, Bangalore 560 047 Karnataka, India Phone: 080-3046106 Email: digiclass@edurite.com Website: www.digiclass.in Pearson Higher Education Address: 7th Floor, Knowledge Boulevard, A-8(A), Sector-62, Noida-201309, Phone: 0120-4190100 Email: elearning.in@pearson.com Website: www.pearsoned.co.in SMART Technologies (India) Address: 417, DLF Tower A, Plot No.10 Jasola District Centre, Jasola, New Delhi - 110027 Phone: 18001033938 Email: SMARTIndia@smarttech.com Website: www.smarttech.com/in Station-e Info Services Pvt Ltd Address: STATION-e House, 2-Jalaram, Near Veraval Mercantile Bank, University Road, Rajkot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 360007 Phone: 0281-2570201 Email: info@station-e.com Website: www.station-e.com

Tata Interactive Systems Address: Leela Business Park, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400059, Phone: +91 22 6643 8000 Website: www.tataclassedge.com TRS Forms and Services Private Limited Address: 23, Chakrapani Street, West Mambalam, Chennai - 600 033 Phone: 0442372545 EMail: subu@trsforms.com Website: www.trsforms.com authorGEN Technologies Pvt Ltd Address: C-133, Second Floor, Phase-8, Industrial area, Mohali Phone: 01725020185 Email: academics@wiziq.com Website: www.wiziq.com Words Worth English Language Lab Address: 2nd floor, Silicon towers, Near Law garden Navrangpura, Ahmedabad â&#x20AC;&#x201C;380009 Phone: 079-30451451 Email: jasvinders@actuniv.com Website: www.wordsworthelt.com

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mity School of Engineering and Technology in association with EMC Corporation, brought some of the most insightful and erudite minds in the IT industry from all over the world to a common platform by organizing CONFLUENCE 2013-The next generation IT Summit themed Mega Trends of IT Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud on 26th-27th september 2013.

The entire event is partitioned into 13 tracks which are based on 3 plenary sessions covering the core areas: Software Engineering, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Cloud and Virtualization, Data and Application Security, Data Mining, Computer Networking, Cloud Computing, Geometric Modeling, Graphics and Virtualization.

The inaugural ceremony commenced with the lamp lightening by a group of dignitaries namely, Prof (Dr) Balvinder Shukla, Acting Vice Chancellor, AUUP, Prof (Dr) Ravi Prakash, Director, Amity School Engineering and Technology, AUUP and Co-Chairperson, CONFLUENCE 2013, Shri Suresh Chandra Gupta, Dy Director General, Department of Telecommunications Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India, P K Gupta, Senior Director and Chief Architect, EMC Corporation, Singapore, and Prof (Dr) Abhay Bansal, HoD (Computer Science & Engineering) and Director, DICET and Coordinator, CONFLUENCE 2013, and Ms Nitasha Hasteer, Acting HoD, IT, ASET and Coordinator, CONFLUENCE 2013.

Prof (Dr) Abhay Bansal, HoD, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Director, DICET and Coordinator, CONFLUENCE 2013 introduced the gathering with the theme of the CONFLUENCE 2013. Prof. (Dr.) Ravi Prakash, Director, Amity School Engineering and Technol-

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Lamp Lightening: (L to R) Prof (Dr) Ravi Prakash, Shri Suresh Chandra Gupta, P K Gupta, Ms Nitasha Hasteer, Prof (Dr) Abhay Bansal and Prof (Dr) Balvinder Shukla

ogy, and Co-Chairperson, CONFLUENCE 2013 formally welcomed all the dignitaries and the participants from the various parts of the country. This was followed

by Chairperson’s address by Prof. (Dr.) Balvinder Shukla, Acting Vice Chancellor, AUUP. The Proceedings of Confluence 2013 were then officially released. Following that, Shri Suresh Chandra Sharma, Dy. Director General, Department of Telecommunications Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India delivered his address. This was ensued with an address

by Chief Guest Rajiv Mehrotra, Founder and Chairman, Shyam Telecom and VNL and President, MTS. In the Keynote address by P. K. Gupta, Senior Director and Chief Architect, EMC Corporation, Singapore threw Light on the thrust areas of theme of Confluence 2013.

This was followed by address by the Guest of Honor Prof (Dr) Dilip K. Bandhyopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Guru Govind Indraprashtha University.

Prof (Dr) Ravi Prakash described Amity University as ‘a temple of learning’ and very rightly called it a research and innovation driven University. Prof

(Dr) Balvinder Shukla addressed “the world as a global Village” and boosted the student’s morale with her words of wisdom. Rajiv Mehrotra revealed that innovation is good only when it reaches the market and the end customers. P K Gupta spread delight among the crowd by making them do the ‘gangnam style’.

He emphasized that Data scientist is the most trending job of this era. He also explained the 4 V’s of Big Data – Velocity, Value, variety and Volume.

In the end, Nitasha Hasteer, Acting HoD, IT, ASET and Coordinator, CONFLUENCE 2013 offered a vote of thanks to all and acknowledged the invited guests for gracing the occasion by their solemn presence and all the participants who were the main ingredients of this conference.

The discussion on research papers and poster presentations came out to be very educative and enlightening. It received enormous response from students, academicians and industry, which were discussed on 6 tracks. The first track addressed by Prof Tapie Rohm, California State University, USA focused on Social Computing.

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ISB partners with Biocon to launch executive programme on Business Analytics The Indian School of Business (ISB) is offering its first hybrid model of executive education programme in partnership with leading Biotechnology enterprise, Biocon. The ‘ISB Biocon Certificate Programme in Business Analytics’ aims to create the next generation of data management scientists.

The philanthropic arm of Biocon Foundation will support ISB’s endeavour by addressing the learning needs of professionals already working in the field of analytics and those who plan to start a career in data analytics.

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by ISB, CBA has inputs from some of the best minds from global academia, and business leaders,” said the B-school press statement.

Analog Devices and IISc collaborate to spur innovation in Research and Development Analog Devices Inc, the global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing and signal-conditioning applications, has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The Firm will be part of the Institute’s Industry Affiliate Programme of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) and infuse innovation, provide industry insights, and accelerate commercialisation of active research in MEMS (micromachines) and nano-sciences in India.

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IIT-D, BSES Yamuna Power Limited to continue partnership Indian Institute of Technology -Delhi has signed a three-year agreement with BSES Yamuna Power Limited for the development of consumer friendly technologies. The contract was renewed after the success of the initial agreements between the two organisations.

CEO of BYPL Arvind Gujral and Dr Anil Wali, Managing Director of Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) - a society established

by IIT-Delhi for enhancing industry - academia interactions and cutting edge research signed the agreement.

The previous joint researches have led to the development of consumer friendly technologies like the MIDAS (Modular Integrated Distribution Automation System), REAP (Renewable Energy Assisted Pump) and DRONA - a simulator for power discom operations.

DMRC appoints BAFEL for clear concise communication Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), a body for Metro designing and construction appoints BAFEL Academy, a language and communication Institutes to conduct “Clear Concise Communication Training.”

The Training provided by BAFEL is to ensure clarity and effectiveness of Communication on the Metro Stations and Metro Platforms. The training modules are conducted between train operator and traffic controller room representatives.

BAFEL which is appointed by DMRC takes pioneer initiative in designing a module that best suits the requirements of the Delhi Rail Corporation. The customised training modules include various sessions and interactive learning modules that help people understand communication better and remove barriers of understanding.

EnglishEdge tie up with Allahabad University EnglishEdge, provider of English education through innovative use of technology has tied up with Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) of Allahabad University to impart English language skills through mobile-learning to its students. The innovative online learning concept would soon run its pilot project on the campus of IPS.